Girlfriend Charged After Man Dies From Being Force-Fed Bleach
Yasmine Elder poured bleach down the throat of Darrius Ellis during a fight early Monday and made him swallow it, authorities said.
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Yasmine Elder poured bleach down the throat of Darrius Ellis during a fight early Monday and made him swallow it, authorities said.
Chicago authorities say a 26-year-old man has died after being forced to drink a caustic substance and the death has been ruled a homicide.
A reputed drug dealer was jailed on a $1 million bond Tuesday in a 2015 Christmas Day murder during an argument over turf sales in Englewood.
Seven of the victims came under fire in three separate attacks along a four-block stretch of the Gresham neighborhood.
Three people have been killed and another person critically wounded in shootings Tuesday on Chicago's South Side.
Nine children were found living in squalor inside a home with no heat, no food, and no parents in sight in the Englewood neighborhood on Sunday.
Nine children were hospitalized Sunday afternoon after they were found living in squalor in an Englewood home with no heat or food.
Some leading residents of Englewood say violent crime in their south side neighborhood is not as paralyzing as media reports make it seem.
Firefighters were sent at 5:14 p.m. to a working fire at 7128 S. Sangamon, according to Fire Media Affairs.
Residents of the South Side's Englewood community have hope--and some concerns--about plans to build a new high school in the area.
Mayor Emanuel says his administration is pushing forward with efforts to spur economic development in some of Chicago's more troubled areas.
A 24-year-old transgender woman was shot to death Tuesday morning in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Most recently, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot in the left eye on in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The latest homicide happened Monday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, where officers responding to a call of shots fired at 8:14 p.m. in the 900 block of East 132nd Street found a man in his 20s in a field with gunshot wounds across his chest and torso.
The latest killing happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
An off-duty Cook County correctional officer was shot Saturday night in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
A 11-year-old boy died in a crash Saturday that also injured nine others in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
A 54-year-old man was stabbed early Monday during a dispute with his 25-year-old partner in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Marcus Cameron, 22, was found about 7:40 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head in the 4500 block of South Prairie in the Bronzeville neighborhood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Some said the crosses honoring gun violence victims emphasized the negative image people already have of the South Side neighborhood.
About 7 p.m., Husain Parr was walking in the 7000 block of South Princeton when someone in a dark-colored SUV opened fire, hitting him in the chest and both legs, police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.
Some Englewood residents are interested in the idea of federal intervention to curb Chicago violence -- up to a point, anyway. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.
Four-month-old puppy Mr. Riley is recovering after he was found mutilated in a plastic bag in Englewood.
On Sunday, a retired carpenter who has made crosses for victims of mass killings set up a solemn memorial in Englewood for the victims of violent crime in Chicago in 2017.
Each represents a homicide victim killed in Chicago in 2017, and another will be added for every person who's killed in the city this year.
